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Monday, June 1, 2015

Halfway There

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It’s June 1st already!

Can you believe it?

We’re almost halfway to Christmas!

Yes, only six short months from now, we’ll
all be in the Christmas mode – holiday music playing all around us; decorations
glowing from stores and homes, and because it’ll still be early enough so that
it’s not too stressful, most of us will be in a jolly mood, making plans for
the big day with love in our hearts.

However, we still have summer vacations,
the 4th of July, Labor Day, Halloween and Thanksgiving before the
snow starts flying and the Christmas decorations begin to twinkle.

But make no mistake – it will go fast. As soon
as the last firecracker pops on the Fourth of July, you may as well make your
Christmas list and start shopping.

The stores will begin to advertise “back to
school” attire along with pumpkins and other Halloween paraphernalia, and
whether it’s really time or not, we’ll start to feel the pressure. Last year,
one of the TV stations started running Christmas movies 24/7 on the last day of October and played them until after Christmas.

Even I, the ultimate fall and holiday
freak, was extremely tired of the gushy Christmas stories playing over and over
and was glad when they stopped.

No matter how quickly time passes, and it
does seem to pass faster as we get older, there’s nothing we can do to change it
so we may as well try to enjoy it.

Someone once said, “Time is like a river. You cannot touch the same water twice because
the flow that has passed will never pass again.”